quick PPE question. I have been hearing some debates starting about this.

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With contact..you wear gown and gloves

With Droplet, I know you gotta wear the face shield, mask whatever...BUT. Some people are saying you ONLY wear that, but then others are saying on NCLEX you wear, GOWN, GLOVES, AND the mask and stuff.

And same with airborne, some way you ONLY wear the N95, but some way you get the gown and gloves too

I was thinking you wore gown and gloves with droplet and airborne as well. You don't want droplets of whatever getting on you. Or any kind of airborne stuff. But yeah I know they ask PPE questions on the Nclex. And if they were to ask...well what would you wear with Pertussis..what would you put? Or what to wear with TB..what would you put? And it's a select all that apply, or gives answers like (A-gown, gloves, B-gloves, gown mask, C-gloves, goggles, etc) See what I'm saying?

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This has been driving my crazy too! I have the same thought process as you to PPE. It's just confusing what does NCLEX want, I think in kaplan it says just to wear the masks. AHHHHH I just hope I don't get a SATA about PPE, I guess I will just go with my gut?

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This JUST came up for me, too, on the question trainer for Kaplan! We learned contact +mask= droplet, and droplet + N95= airborne... so I was shocked that kaplan says only mask for droplet. Ick! What if they sneeze on me, and I don't see it?

Anywho, Kaplan says only mask, do we trust that or not?

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I've been wondering about this same issue. Today I looked on the CDC website ( http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/isolation/Isolation2007.pdf ) to find out more information. There's a lot of text, but from what I understood it seems like just a mask for droplet. From what I've heard NCLEX would follow CDC guidelines. Has anyone else read the pdf?

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Well you know droplet is a form of contact...that spit lands on something like a siderail or the bed sheet, and you touch it. Ding..that spit has a free ride to the next patient. AND my LaCharity new edition book had a question about Herpes Zoster(airborne). It was a select all that apply and it said "gown, gloves, N95". I also remember a question from Nursing school in our community health class, it was something something something(pt. had one of the droplet diseases), which of the following is correct "gown gloves, gown gloves mask, mask, blah blah" And it was gown gloves mask. So I'm gonna go with the contact PLUS mask, or contact PLUS N95

Aside from spit going from the siderail to my shirt or whatever...I don't think I'll walk into an Airborne room with no gown, it's like putting honey on yourself and walking through a room of feathers...

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Hey kgh! Thanks for the message! Apparently I do not have access to private messaging because I have not put up enough posts. I really hope the PVT trick worked and I passed! Do you believe it's true?

LaCharity is definitely harder than the NCLEX I was ranging in the 70's percent wise on each test. But I believe it def. helped me when I finally took the test again. Go through the WHOLE book and you will feel alot more confident when those questions arise on the NCLEX.

Also Infection Control were basically PPE questions. and what isolation precautions you would use.

Hope that helps! Thanks for the support!

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I'm gonna send you another PM haha.

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Great!!! Hope to hear from you!! I haven't been able to get off this website since I took the exam. haha. Reading everyone's experiences definitely gives a peace of mind :)

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To the droplet question... my director had a great idea today... perhaps the drops have to be inhaled to be transmitted? Ergo, no gown needed. Duh. Now, I think I remember that...

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What is PPE?

Hey kgh! Thanks for the message! Apparently I do not have access to private messaging because I have not put up enough posts. I really hope the PVT trick worked and I passed! Do you believe it's true?

LaCharity is definitely harder than the NCLEX I was ranging in the 70's percent wise on each test. But I believe it def. helped me when I finally took the test again. Go through the WHOLE book and you will feel alot more confident when those questions arise on the NCLEX.

Also Infection Control were basically PPE questions. and what isolation precautions you would use.

Hope that helps! Thanks for the support!

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I've been wondering about this same issue. Today I looked on the CDC website ( http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/isolation/Isolation2007.pdf ) to find out more information. There's a lot of text, but from what I understood it seems like just a mask for droplet. From what I've heard NCLEX would follow CDC guidelines. Has anyone else read the pdf?

I found this same thing confusing and went to the CDC website and read the latest PDF. I also understood from it that droplet or air would just be the masks BUT if you look at the Table at the end of the PDF some of the diseases get two types of PPE/precautions (droplet and contact). So yes, it is confusing and if you read the whole document you see there are a number of issues about PPE that are "unresolved." So I will just say I haven't seen a question yet that contained conflicts about that subject. They have all seem to be worded to avoid it. In real life, I haven't ever seen droplet or air precautions without contact precautions also.

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Yeah. If I see a droplet disease, or Airbone disease...I'm gonna put gown and gloves with the Mask or N95

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